Word: medallions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endless stream of happy talk on the 65th birthday of Broadway Composer Richard Rodgers. NBC's Today show gave over its full two hours in the morning to a review of his life and work, and that night Mayor John Lindsay pinned the city's Handel Medallion on him during a reception at Gracie Mansion. In between came a luncheon attended by 90 of Rodgers' friends and well-wishers, including cast members from many of his 23 shows. Letters and tape-recorded greetings showered in from the likes of Vice President Humphrey and Senator Dirksen, beatifying...
...book." Actress Rosemary Harris says that she was overjoyed when she discovered that her co-star in the recent TV revival of Blithe Spirit would be Rachel Roberts, because the two were born under the same sign, and get along especially well together. Rudolf Nureyev wears a gold Pisces medallion around his neck. Peter Sellers has consulted a clairvoyant for the past six years, says, "It's a lot like going to a head shrinker...
...Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
Opting for a bare raked forestage, Annals has erected a plain wooden back-wall containing an enormous medallion, which can open to form a twelve-rayed golden Incan sun and reveal a raised acting area behind. This sun is so constructed that, in a way I must not reveal, it later contributes appreciably in conveying a feeling of horror at the Spaniards' avaricious plundering of Incan wealth. His exotic, colorful (and, at one point, tinnient) costumes for the Peruvians contrast effectively with the Spaniards' blacks and grays, only occasionally relieved by white and red. And Martin Aronstein's lighting...
...impossible from the very nature of the group, selected for its representativeness and diversity. The petition was accompanied by a covering letter that stated: "We urge you to take whatever action you think most appropriate. Write to the President yourself, sign the enclosed petition, pledge to return your medallion, sit-in at the White House, or enlist in the army...